**Date:** 1914-11-17
**Source:** Lenin Miscellany, vol. 27
**Pages:** 168-169

[«DAILY TELEGRAPH» 17.XI. 1914. PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES ON CENSORSHIP OF KEIR HARDIE'S ARTICLES]

*Daily Telegraph* 17.XI. 1914.
Parliament.
...Mr. E. Jones (R. Merthyr Tydoil) asked of the censorship could not be applied to the writings of Mr. Keir Hardie in his journal...

And then he [the same person] at the end of the session: he said that he had notified K. Hardie that he would speak about him, and it is not his fault if he is absent.

He reads extracts from K. Hardie's articles of 31.X. and 7.XI, where K. Hardie accuses the English and French of cruelties, sneers at the loyalty of Indian troops. He, K. Hardie, he said, spoke [of how] the Kaiser is brave, [fights] like a soldier, and at ours he sneered: "our fire-side loving King".

Can the government tolerate such speeches from a member of parliament? We, he said, "as a result in Merthyr Tydoil had had considerable difficulty in the past few weeks in recruiting, although it had been going on handsomely before Mr. Keir Hardie began his tactics".

Then J. A. Pease says: May I just say, in one word, that so far as the governments are concerned, they believe all the suggestions made by Mr. K. Hardie & referred to by Mr. Jones to be entirely without foundation, & that they ought to be treated with contempt?

(End of session).